Vanessa Aspillaga (Law & Order) is set for a guest recurring role on Starz‘s ballet drama Flesh And Bone. The series follows Claire (Sarah Hay), a young dancer with has a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. Aspillaga will play Monica, the company’s assistant manager, who is stable, extremely good at her job and at managing her boss. The actress, whose credits include Elementary, The Good Wife and CBS’ Untitled Jim Gaffigan pilot, is repped by Paradigm.

Leah Renee (The Playboy Club) has booked a role in NBC‘s comedy pilot Mission Control, from exec producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Set in 1962, the workplace ensemble examines what happens when a strong woman (Krysten Ritter) butts heads with a macho astronaut (Tommy Dewey) in the race to land on the moon. Renee will play the Ritter character’s secretary Jessica, a bombshell who tries to get her boss to learn flirting to advance her career. Renee, who also has joined the cast of Lifetime’s telefilm Mr. Fiction, is repped by Intellectual Artists Management and Innovative Artists.

4 Comments

Leah Renee is hilarious! Her work in the sitcom Satisfaction (kind of like a Canadian Happy Endings) is awesome!

Andy • on Mar 20, 2014 8:35 pm

Didn’t care for Satisfaction. Supporting/recurring cast was annoying. Renee was fun. Seemed kinda like she wasn’t given enough to do. Really excited about this pilot.

Not my nameb • on Mar 20, 2014 8:35 pm

Mission Control sounds great but I have a feeling it’ll end up being one of those pilots they network says they love but then decide “it feels more like a cable show” and ends up passing on it. It kinda sounds too original for a network TV sitcom, probably would’ve worked better on a channel like FX.